Huntsville gazette., 1887-12-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


vention of 1888 ought to be held in that
city.
THREE Indians confined III the Giendive
(Mont.) County Jail attempted to murder
two white prisoners and then hanged
| themselves
| NoDDY MOSES, a would-be train wreck
er, was arrested at Woods, w. Va, on the
9th, and jailed.
AN attempt at Limerick, Ireland, to
nola a demonstration in honor of the
| Manchester martyrs" Allen, Larkin and
OBrien was suppressed by she police.
A CRAZY Chinaman created panic on a
| Denver q Rio Grande train near Grand
junction, Col, on the 9th. He cat Fevers.s
people and was finally killed.
GLADSTONE says he is under orders from
his medical advisers not to attend public
meetings unless there is special necessity
therefor.
AN agent of PIT Barnum has purchased
from Wombell's menagerie, near LyalI,
England, number of animals to replace
those destroyed in the recent fire at the
winter quarters of Barnums circus.
The authorship of the alleged forgery Of
| Prince Bismarck's name to letters, tele-
grams and documents inimical to the
| Car of Russia still remains a mystery
at Berlin and creates an intense sensa-
tion.
THE steamer Cheviott, from Melbourne
to Sydney, was wrecked outside Port
Phillips Head. The steerage passengers,
most of the officers and crew, to the mum
Der of sixty, perished. The master and
officers were exonerated from all blame.
THREE pris oners were publicly whipped
in the jail yard at New Castle, Del, on
| ba ia of
James Conway, petit larceny, five lashes;
Ulysses Milton, larceny, ten lashes, and
James Holland, larceny, twenty lashes.
AUSTRALIAN news says Sir Henry
Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, has
become bankrupt. Scandalous reports are
in circulation that former Governors
secretary sold pardons to convicts freely.
THE acting Commissioner Of the Land Of
flee has recommended that suit be brought
against French Bros. and VIM. Scott of
the Deadwood (Dak.) land district for the
recovery of S44, ,000, the value Of 1900, 900
feet Of lumber alleged to have been ille-
gally cut from the public domain by Scott
and sold to French Bros.
CORPORATION elections under the new
municipal franchise were held at Belfast
on the 26th, resulting in the return of ten
Conservative aldermen and thirty Con-
servative councillors. The single Parnel-
lite candidate was at the foot of the poll.
THE dead body of child was found in
the chimney of an unoccupied house at
Tiffin. O.. on the Goth Its skull had been
crushed with stone, after which it was
forced through O stoye-pipe hole into the
chimney.
THE Art Academy building in Eden
Park, Cincinnati, was dedicated on the
26th. 1t is the gift of Nicholas Long
worth, Reuben r. Springer and David
Sinton. Joseph Longworth provided an
endowment fund of $500, 900, the annual
income of which is to be used to support
the academy.
THE report of the Third Assistant Post
master-General for the last fiscal year
shows that the tota! ordinary postal reve-
nues Of the year were SIS 11S 2I3. The
revenue from money-order business was
$7l9, 336, making a total revenue Of $4S,
S37, SO. The total expenditure for the year,
including actual and estimated outstand
ing liabilities, amounted to S53, 1873, 252,
showing a deficit in the revenue of s.,
295, ,643.
The Jewish Minister'S Association of
America met in New York City on the
2Sth.
CLEMENoEAU and General Boulanger
have become reconciled.
A NUMBER of cigar factories in Havana
ave closed, throwing out Of employment
1900 men
THE hot-water boiler in the kitchen Of
the Kirby House, at Milwaukee, Wis, ex-
ploded on the 2Sth, killing one person and
seriously injuring twelve others.
SEARCH for the missing British gunboat
| Wasp has been abandoned.
TWENTY -FOUR school children are re-
ported burned to death in school-house
! III Russia.
SECOND STORY thieves" on the 9th,
robbed the residence of ex-Postmaster
Kendrick Of Hoboken, n. j., of about s.
600 worth of diamonds and jewelry.
FRANK REBEC, young butcher, twenty
one years of age, committed suicide at
Ceder Rapids. Ia, on the night of the
27th, by shooting himself in the head.
Unreciprocated affection was the cause.
THE minimum temperature in st. Paul,
| Minn., on the night of the 275h, was 16
deg. below zero. At seven O'Clock the
thermometer registered is deg. below, and
within an hour afterwards had dropped to
u deg.
BARON HIRsCH'S recent offer of g, 100000
for the benefit of Jews in Europe was
made in letter to the Car, his object
being the founding of primary schools in
Russia. The Gar has accepted the offer,
and the funds have been deposited in the
Bank of England.
The live stock commissioners of several
Northern States have issued call for
meeting, to be held at Springfield, H.,
December IS, to consider the Texas fever
question.
THE mayor and councilmen of Lincoln.
! Neb, are in jail at Omaha for contempt of
court in disobeying an order of Judge
| Brewer They will ask the Supreme Court
for writ of habeas corpus.
A SAN RENO telegram of the 2Sth said
the condition of the Crown Prince was
considered hopeful. The submaxiliary
glandular swelling which formed before
the recent attack of oedesla Of the glottis
is said to be decreasing.
EMILY BARRETT granddaughter of ex-
Governor Higgins of New Jersey, died in
a special car at the Union Depot in Kan
sas CITY, Mo-, on the 2Sth of diphtheria.
She was one of party en- route from Los